Developmental Links Between Speech Perception in Noise, Singing, and Cortical Processing of Music in Children with Cochlear Implants

Torppa, Ritva; Faulkner, Andrew; Kujala, Teija; Huotilainen, Minna; Lipsanen, Jari

doi:10.1525/mp.2018.36.2.156

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“…also sang to the infant. This suggests that parental singing is an inherent part of a child’s upbringing, which is important given research indicating that more parental singing potentially benefits not only parent–child bonding, but also encourages children to sing and is associated with better attention, speech perception in noise and language skills (Torppa et al, 2018, 2019).…”

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The Role of Music in Families of Children With Hearing Loss and Normal Hearing in Australia, Finland, and the UK

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The primary aim of this current study was to compare the role, importance and value placed on music by families with normally hearing (NH) children, to those who had a child with a hearing loss (HL) who wore either hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. A secondary aim was to see whether this differed between the countries. Parents of children aged 2–6 years living in Australia, Finland, and the United Kingdom were invited to complete the Role of Music in Families Questionnaire (RMFQ). Two groups of participants were recruited from each country: (i) parents of NH children, and (ii) parents of children with a HL. The RMFQ had seven subsections covering topics such as music participation, attitudes to music, importance of music in the family, and future perspectives on music. Three hundred and twenty-two families of NH children, and 56 families of children with HL completed the questionnaire (Australia: 50 NH, 25 HL; Finland: 242 NH, 21 HL; United Kingdom: 30 NH, 10 HL). Analyses compared between NH and HL groups within each country, and between the three countries for the NH group, and the HL group, independently. Overall, there were few significant differences between the participation levels, role, or importance of music in families with NH children compared to those with a child who had a HL, regardless of whether the families lived in Australia, Finland or the United Kingdom. Children first started to respond to music at similar ages, and overall music participation frequency, and music enjoyment were relatively similar. The importance of music in the family was also similar between the NH and HL groups. In comparing between the countries, Finnish children had a tendency to have higher participation rates in musical activities, with few other differences noted. Overall, the results of this study indicate that children, regardless of hearing levels or country of residence, have similar levels of music engagement and enjoyment, and HL is not seen as a contraindication to music participation and involvement by the parents involved in this study.

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“…A widely reported yet controversial benefit of music engagement is the so-called “musician advantage” in speech-in-noise (SIN) processing (for review, see Coffey et al, 2017 ). Several studies demonstrate that musicians outperform non-musicians in figure-ground perception, as measured in a variety of degraded speech recognition tasks ( Bidelman and Krishnan, 2010 ; Parbery-Clark et al, 2011 ; Swaminathan et al, 2015 ; Anaya et al, 2016 ; Clayton et al, 2016 ; Brown et al, 2017 ; Deroche et al, 2017 ; Du and Zatorre, 2017 ; Mankel and Bidelman, 2018 ; Torppa et al, 2018 ; Yoo and Bidelman, 2019 ). Amateur musicians (∼10 years training) are better at identifying and discriminating target speech amidst acoustic interferences including reverberation ( Bidelman and Krishnan, 2010 ) and noise babble ( Parbery-Clark et al, 2009a ).…”

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Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios

Bidelman

Yoo

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Studies suggest that long-term music experience enhances the brain's ability to segregate speech from noise. Musicians' "speech-in-noise (SIN) benefit" is based largely on perception from simple figure-ground tasks rather than competitive, multitalker scenarios that offer realistic spatial cues for segregation and engage binaural processing. We aimed to investigate whether musicians show perceptual advantages in cocktail party speech segregation in a competitive, multi-talker environment. We used the coordinate response measure (CRM) paradigm to measure speech recognition and localization performance in musicians vs. non-musicians in a simulated 3D cocktail party environment conducted in an anechoic chamber. Speech was delivered through a 16-channel speaker array distributed around the horizontal soundfield surrounding the listener. Participants recalled the color, number, and perceived location of target callsign sentences. We manipulated task difficulty by varying the number of additional maskers presented at other spatial locations in the horizontal soundfield (0-1-2-3-4-6-8 multi-talkers). Musicians obtained faster and better speech recognition amidst up to around eight simultaneous talkers and showed less noise-related decline in performance with increasing interferers than their non-musician peers. Correlations revealed associations between listeners' years of musical training and CRM recognition and working memory. However, better working memory correlated with better speech streaming. Basic (QuickSIN) but not more complex (speech streaming) SIN processing was still predicted by music training after controlling for working memory. Our findings confirm a relationship between musicianship and naturalistic cocktail party speech streaming but also suggest that cognitive factors at least partially drive musicians' SIN advantage.

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“…Regardless of the increasing amount of research findings in favor of the beneficial impact of music training on pitch-related performance in speech and music in CI users (J. K.-C. Chen et al, 2010; Fu et al, 2015; Gfeller et al, 1998; Torppa et al, 2014; Torppa, Faulkner, Kujala, Huotilainen, & Lipsanen, 2018), the underlying mechanisms accounting for the performance gain remains unclear. With the advent of modern brain imaging technologies, more and more evidence has been reported to show experience-related plasticity in the human brain (Green & Bavelier, 2008; Kempermann et al, 2010; Limb, Molloy, Jiradejvong, & Braun, 2010).…”

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“…Because no perceptual data from the choir members with CIs were available in this study, it is unknown whether their superb vocal singing ability that resulted from the intensive music training would translate into better music perception, pitch perception, tone perception, speech perception, and eventually academic performance, and vice versa. Torppa et al (2018) recently reported that children with CIs with regular informal singing at home outperformed children with CIs with no singing activity in speech-in-noise perception tasks. It is conceivable that intensive formal music training might also enhance the perceptual performance and other aspects of speech-language abilities in children with CIs.…”

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Singing Proficiency of Members of a Choir Formed by Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants

Yang

Liang²,

Chen

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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PurposeA group of 10 prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants (CIs) formed a choir and received 21 months of formal music training. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the singing proficiency of these children.MethodThe participants included all choir members (7 girls and 3 boys, mean age of 9.5 years old) who were unilateral CI users. Meanwhile, 8 age-matched children with normal hearing were recruited as controls and were trained on 1 song for 2 weeks. Individual singing samples without instrument accompaniment were recorded from all participants. The singing samples were subject to acoustic analysis in which the fundamental frequency (F0) of each note was extracted and the duration was measured. Five metrics were developed and computed to quantify the accuracy of their pitch and rhythm performance. The 5 metrics included (a) percent correct of F0 contour direction of adjacent notes, (b) mean deviation of the normalized F0 across the notes, (c) mean deviation of the pitch intervals, (d) mean deviation of adjacent note duration ratio, and (e) mean absolute deviation of note duration.ResultsThe choir members with CIs demonstrated high accuracy in both pitch and tempo measures and performed on par with the children with normal hearing. Early start of music training after implantation and use of bimodal hearing contributed to the development of better music ability in these children with CIs.ConclusionThese findings indicated that rigorous music training could facilitate high singing proficiency in prelingually deafened children with CIs.

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Developmental Links Between Speech Perception in Noise, Singing, and Cortical Processing of Music in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cited by 32 publications

References 93 publications

The Role of Music in Families of Children With Hearing Loss and Normal Hearing in Australia, Finland, and the UK

The Role of Music in Families of Children With Hearing Loss and Normal Hearing in Australia, Finland, and the UK

Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios

Singing Proficiency of Members of a Choir Formed by Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants

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